Students sitting in a dimly lit computer lab, showing frustration and fatigue in front of computers with spinning buffering icons, under fluorescent lights.
Students in a Dimly Lit Computer Lab – Frustration and Technology

In lab’s dim throe, rows of screens aglow,
Students sit in rows, dozing in slow-mo,
Videos stalling, cursors calling—loading, loading,
Echoing sighs, time defying, endlessly crying.

Buffering’s blight just might ignite anger from
Rendering’s plight, under fluorescent light, no end in sight.
Circles spinning, spinning, patience thinning, spinning, spinning
Again and again, patience thinning, again and again.

Networks freeze, teasing, seizing moments, anxious students wheezing,
Forced to reboot, can’t compute, reboot, reboot…
Fingers hover, hoping to recover, recover corrupt files
Stored in personal profiles, lost files to rediscover.

Our need for speed, indeed, we can’t concede,
Breeds worry. Blurry eyes plead, hurry, hurry!
Swifter processor lifts loads. Dreams of speedy, seamless shifts.
Memory’s gift uplifts spirits, avoiding data drifts. We’re set.

Published by TheOtherKLM

I really hate talking about myself, but if I have to... I’m K.L. McDaniel, the person behind TheOtherKLM. I’m an introvert with extrovert moments, a fitness-minded person fighting later-age fat, and someone trying to keep life somewhat organized without pretending it isn’t a mess. Here, I write about the things I keep coming back to: movement, mental health, learning, self-awareness, and the strange little contradictions that make people interesting. I’m not here to act like I have everything figured out. I’m here to think through it, laugh when possible, and maybe find a little balance in the middle of the clutter. So, that’s me. More or less.

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